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Schedule of Events April 4-5, 2019 Nebraskan Student Union Ponderosa Room Schedule of Events April 4-5, 2019 Nebraskan Student Union Ponderosa Room Thursday, April 4 Undergraduate Research Day & Graduate Program Fair 7:30 am to 9:00 am Students set up posters 9:00 am to 11:00 am Poster Judging 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm Luncheon with Guest Speaker, Addison Heeren (Ponderosa A & B) 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm Oral Presentations Open Poster Viewing Graduate Program Fair 3:30 pm Awards Ceremony & Reception (Ponderosa A & B) Friday, April 5 Graduate Research Day 8:00 am to 11:00 am Graduate Student Oral Presentations, Open Poster Viewing 11:00 am to 12:00 am Graduate Research Awards and Social Schedule of Events | 2 Guest Speaker Addison Heeren Addison graduated from UNK with a Bachelor of Music in Musical Theater Performance. Since graduating Addison has become the Resident Prop Master at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City. To those that do not know, a Prop Master is the person responsible for every “thing” on stage in a theatrical performance. This includes furniture, food, special effects, weapons, and quite often, fake blood. In his last four and a half years in NYC, he has overseen the props to over 170 different productions and has had the pleasure of working with great theater and film personalities such as Joel Grey, Ralph Macchio, Pamela Adlon, Mike Birbiglia, Aundrea Burns, and Donna McKechnie. Addison has had the great opportunity to work on some very exciting projects in the past few years. He supervised the props for Fidler Afn Dakh, the American premiere of Fiddler on the Roof spoken and sung entirely in Yiddish. He was flown to the Netherlands to install Jersey Boys on the Norwegian Cruise Line - Bliss. He supervised the Off Broadway transfer of A Clockwork Orange direct from London, England. And he also constructed props for Mike Birbiglia’s recent Broadway show The New One (a specialized fitted sheet that keeps a sleepwalker in their bed so they do not harm themselves while asleep). Addison was an Undergraduate Research Fellow at UNK. He studied the hero’s journey as it pertains to the Rock Musical. His research culminated in a lecture recital examining the chord structures and key signatures of the musical Next To Normal. He then wrote, casted, directed, and accompanied fellow students performing selections from the musical to accompany his research. While at UNK, Addison was taught and directed by Dr. Sharon Campbell, Dr. Anne Foradori, Jack Garrison, Janice Fronczak, and Darin Himmerich. It is to these generous and talented professors that Addison owes much of his success today. Even though Addison has somewhat shied away from the spotlight on stage, he still has a passion for singing and playing piano. Quite often, you can still find him sneaking into a piano practice room. Feel free to follow his adventures on Instagram: @propstitutenyc 3 | Guest Speaker Table of Contents Undergraduate Poster Abstracts ........................................ 5 Fine Arts & Humanities ...................................................... 5 Behavioral & Social Sciences ............................................. 7 Natural & Physical Sciences ............................................ 13 Professional & Applied Studies ....................................... 24 Undergraduate Performance Schedule ........................... 33 Undergraduate Performance Abstracts ........................... 33 Undergraduate Oral Presentation Schedule.................... 34 Undergraduate Oral Presentation Abstracts ................... 36 Graduate Poster Abstracts ................................................ 46 Behavioral & Social Sciences ........................................... 46 Professional & Applied Studies ....................................... 48 Graduate Oral Presentation Schedule.............................. 50 Graduate Oral Presentation Abstracts ............................. 52 Index ................................................................................... 58 Table of Contents | 4 Undergraduate Poster Abstracts Poster U02 – Emma Lee Fine Arts & Humanities Mentor: Sonja Bickford Title: Assessment and Modes of Application of Aquaponic Communication Systems in Classrooms Aquaponics is the combination of aquaculture and Poster U01 – Matthew Fischer hydroponic technology to grow both fish and plants Mentor: Sonja Bickford together in a closed-loop system. While aquaponics can Title: Development and Testing of K-12 Aquaponics play a role in increasing food security, it may also be a Curriculum potential educational tool because of its interdisciplinary Aquaponics is the combining of aquaculture and nature (Heart 2013, pg 7). Systems come in many sizes and horticulture that is sustainable and discharges less waste styles providing users the choice of system size, colors, than other methods (Lennard, 2004). Easily portable and sound levels, and food production. In addition, the systems sustainable, aquaponics systems have during the past promote and provide health, well being, and educational decade been implemented into classrooms, giving more benefits. The study’s main question was to identify the most hands-on ways of teaching agricultural methods, biological important types of the benefits of aquaponic systems for systems, etc. The literature review conducted has added elementary aged children. to this understanding of the usefulness of aquaponics To identify the benefits of the systems in classrooms systems and has also shown the importance of increasing anonymous observations were done in second and fourth the knowledge of why innovating curriculum is important, grade classrooms, looking specifically at the differences in and how aquaponics curriculum can benefit K-12 classes. classroom dynamics of classes with verses without systems. This study aims to identify and create curriculum that can In addition, a semi-structured survey was distributed be paired with the in-classroom aquaponics system to to teachers at 17 different schools around the central best utilize the systems in teaching material according to Nebraska region with systems. The t-test shed light on the existing educational standards in a K-12 setting. The aim of significance of teachers who are newer to teaching and the study is to write curriculum to be used with the systems have been in the profession for 10 years or less versus to provide examples of curriculum that could be paired those that have been teaching for over 20 years. The newer with ongoing in classroom instruction. A suggested follow teachers believed more strongly in the benefits of the live up would be to test the curriculum in order to assess the plants and fish in their classrooms as well as using the ones teachers prefer and which the students best respond systems as a classroom management tool than those who to. had been teaching longer. For example, a teacher who has Based on the curriculum written and developed during been teaching for four years said this about the system’s this study, it has been found that aquaponics can be used benefits in their classroom, “students are very engaged as a model for instruction in the classroom because of its and interested, love how it influences the classroom engagement of the students and the plethora of biological atmosphere as a whole”. systems that can be taught through it as an example. The curriculum wrote was about photosynthesis in the system, and the water cycle though the system. It is able to be easily English set up and is adaptable to students’ instructional needs as Poster U03 – Theodore Dean Degner well as classroom and teacher needs. Aquaponics systems Mentor: Rebecca Umland are easily adaptable to instructional and curriculum needs Title: Luderature: An Emerging Medium’s Ascension to due to the variety of variables that can be changed and Artform studied within the system. The interactive medium of video games is still a young art form. It offers experiences that are concurrently narrotological and ludological. For this reason, I coined the term “Luderature”, a portmanteau of the word literature 5 | Undergraduate and the latin prefix “ludere,” meaning to play. This shows Music & Performing Arts that the properties of luderature are two-fold, serving both to tell a story as well as being interactive in nature; how the Poster U05 – Tierney Casper player’s choice impacts the game experience. This project Mentor: Sharon Campbell examined various luderary works, and compared them Title: Swimming Lessons, Autism, and the Benefits of Music to literary antecedents. Many works of luderature have Throughout the past three years I have been researching remediated narrative structures, typologies, and themes the benefits of music when used in swimming lessons from other works, following a typical pattern that many with students who have been diagnosed with Autism. In art-forms go through during their infancy. What this means December of 2018 I was able to apply my music techniques is that luderature, as a medium, is transitioning from being in swimming lessons with a student who has been solely created and viewed as entertainment, to developing diagnosed with Autism. I found that many of my music into a distinguished art form. It is justifying its merit as techniques were successful and helped the student to an art form through its transposition of traditional story learn swimming strokes much more quickly than my non- structures, characters, and overarching ideas onto a new music techniques. However, I also found that each case of medium (electronic games)-remediation providing vitality Autism is unique
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